9 thoughts on “Introduction to MAD (video)”

I hope to offer OSX support. I was able to get the core code running on my mac here, but it was an adventure to get all the python prerequisites installed correctly. I have a way to package all the dependencies up into a single standalone binary, but I don’t know anything about creating a .dmg for distribution. If anyone out there can help me with that process, please let me know!

Thanks for trying madesigner. I just tried running the latest version from git on the first example file and was successful. Can I ask what version of python you are running? I have:

$ python –version
Python 2.7.12

It is possible to see similar errors if you’ve specified some inconsistent set of features (i.e. intersecting spars, or a spar cross section bigger than the rib, etc.) Physical problems like this can sometimes blow up the math, but the examples should all work. Are you seeing this issue on the first example?

I was able to take a look this morning and observed that the airfoil data file parsing code was struggling with the naca2412.dat file which had a slightly different syntax variation compared to most of the other airfoil files. I’ve pushed a small change to the airfoil parser and hopefully this will get you back up and running again.

You should be able to do a “git pull” to update your version if you cloned from the master repository on github. Otherwise if you created you own fork, I’m not sure how that work. Github must have some magic to sync with upstream updates?